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Re: Place punctuation inside or outside of quotes when writing software docs for English speaking Europeans in Europe?
Subject:Re: Place punctuation inside or outside of quotes when writing software docs for English speaking Europeans in Europe? From:Geoff Lane <geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:15:05 +0000
On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Claudine CHAUSSON wrote;
> Unless you write for a British audience, usage is to use international
> English, which happens to be, most often, American English.
Not for much longer perhaps, since "Panglish" seems set to be the
international "English" of the future. Hopefully, it won't happen in
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